The Book of Kells: Unlocking the enigma Victoria Whitworth
Event details
Historian Victoria Whitworth presents a new account of one of the most famous and mysterious manuscripts in the world.
The Book of Kells is distinct from all copies of the gospels from the early Middle Ages, not only in the quality and amount of its decoration but also in the peculiarities of the ordering of its contents. Scholars cannot agree on the number of scribes and artists involved; or establish the purpose of the Book; or decide whether its oddities are the result of incompetence or carelessness, and how those oddities relate to the minutely careful and deeply meaningful art.
Join Victoria, author of The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma, as she unlocks the mystery.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
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You can buy copies of many of our speakers’ books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too.
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About the speaker
Victoria Whitworth is a historian and bestselling author of Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England, Swimming with Seals and Dust and Pomegranates. A former academic with degrees from Oxford and York, UK, she specialises in the art, literature and archaeology of Britain and Ireland AD 700-1100. Her latest book is The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma (Head of Zeus).
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